Ronald Reagan and his advisers wage a twilight struggle with a decaying Soviet Union—and each other—in this fascinating documentary history. -- Kirkus Review

Did Ronald Reagan Win the Cold War? Jason Saltoun-Ebin has spent nine years at the Reagan Presidential Library and other archives finding the original documents and Oval Office notes that take us as close as we are likely to come to answering one of the great questions of the twentieth century.

The Reagan Files provides fascinating new material about the decision-making process of the Reagan presidency in the final years of the Cold War. The book takes the reader through the original letters, meetings and policy documents that chronicle the era, compiled with great energy and dedication by Jason Saltoun-Ebin.

I received the hard copy of The Reagan Files yesterday -- thanks so much! The book and the website are invaluable for understanding both President Reagan and the era. ...

While writing my first book on Reagan entailed divining information from scraps here and there, this time around I have the good fortune to have scholars like yourself and Tom Blanton, Svetlana Savranskaya, and Vlad Zubok who have done so much to make primary documents widely available. Thank you!

“Your web site is invaluable. I've used it innumerable times in my own research. I am the author of “The Presidency of Ronald Reagan,” which will be published next year by the University Press of Kansas. Your web site made it possible for me to reduce the amount of time I spent copying files at the Reagan Library and also to have ready access to some documents that I might have missed in my own research. I have quite a few graduate students working on Reagan topics, and all of them know about your web site.”

-- Chester Pach, Ohio University

Students of history will find fodder for dissertations and discussions in the transcripts of the National Security Council meetings and declassified letters contained in The Reagan Files.

-- ForeWord Clarion Reviews

The Reagan Files ... is a rich collection of declassified letters, transcripts and National Security Council meeting minutes gleaned from the Reagan Library concerning U.S.-Soviet relations and the end of the Cold War.

B. President
Reagan won the 1984 presidential election by winning 49 states and 58.8 percent
of the popular vote. In terms of foreign policy, between 1982 and 1984, what
evidence could President Reagan present to the American public to prove that he
was taking actions that would lead to the end of the Cold War?

C. General
Secretary Mikhail Gorbachev came to power in March 1985 and immediately tried
to garner public opinion with sweeping arms control proposals. Was it best for
President Reagan to reject Gorbachev’s proposals to reduce and then eliminate
all nuclear weapons? Do you think Gorbachev was sincere when he called for
internal reforms, like Glasnost and Perestroika?

D. President Reagan and
General Secretary Gorbachev signed the Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces
Reductions Treaty in 1987. The INF Treaty significantly eliminated an entire
class of nuclear weapons (those with a range of 300-3,400 miles), and
alleviated Cold War tensions by reducing the threat of nuclear war in Europe. Did
this Treaty lead to the end of the Cold War? Should President Reagan have also
signed the START Treaty, which called for the elimination of 50% of both U.S.
and Soviet nuclear weapons?